Gary Saul Morson
Gary Saul Morson (born 1948[1]) is an American literary critic and Slavist, currently Frances Hooper Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University. He was Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania for many years prior to leaving for Illinois.
Footnotes
- ↑ Gary Saul Morson, Literature and History: Theoretical Problems and Russian Case Studies (Stanford University Press, 1986: ISBN 0-8047-1302-2), copyright page.
Selected bibliography
Books
- Anna Karenina In Our Time: Seeing More Wisely. Yale University Press (December 5, 2007), ISBN 0-300-10070-1, ISBN 978-0-300-10070-9
- Writing as Exorcism: The Personal Codes of Pushkin, Lermontov, and Gogol (Introduction). Northwestern University Press (February 1, 2004), ISBN 0-8101-2051-8, ISBN 978-0-8101-2051-8
- The Gambler (Introduction). Modern Library (April 8, 2003), ISBN 0-8129-6693-7, ISBN 978-0-8129-6693-0
- A Writer's Diary (Introduction). Northwestern University Press; (1997), ISBN 0-8101-2521-8, ISBN 978-0-8101-2521-6
- Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time. Yale University Press (September 10, 1996), ISBN 0-300-06875-1, ISBN 978-0-300-06875-7
- Freedom and Responsibility in Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert Louis Jackson (co-edited with Elizabeth Cheresh Allen) Northwestern University Press (March 15, 1995), ISBN 0-8101-1146-2, ISBN 978-0-8101-1146-2
- Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence (Rethinking Theory). Northwestern University Press (1995), ISBN 0-8101-1313-9, ISBN 978-0-8101-1313-8
- Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics (co-authored with Caryl Emerson). Stanford University Press (October 1, 1990), ISBN 0-8047-1822-9, ISBN 978-0-8047-1822-6
- Bakhtin: Essays and Dialogues on His Work. University of Chicago Press Journals (March 5, 1990), ISBN 0-226-54133-9, ISBN 978-0-226-54133-4
- Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges (co-edited with Caryl Emerson). Northwestern University Press; (March 1, 1989), ISBN 0-8101-0810-0, ISBN 978-0-8101-0810-3
- Hidden in Plain View: Narrative and Creative Potentials in "War and Peace". Stanford University Press (December 1, 1988), ISBN 0-8047-1718-4, ISBN 978-0-8047-1718-2
- The Boundaries of Genre: Dostoevsky's "Diary of a Writer" and the Traditions of Literary Utopia. Northwestern University Press (November 1, 1988), ISBN 0-8101-0811-9, ISBN 978-0-8101-0811-0
- Literature and History: Theoretical Problems and Russian Case Studies (editor). Stanford University Press (June 1, 1986), ISBN 0-8047-1302-2, ISBN 978-0-8047-1302-3
- Under the name Alicia Chudo:
- And Quiet Flows the Vodka, or When Pushkin Comes to Shove: The Curmudgeon's Guide to Russian Literature and Culture. Northwestern University Press (2000), ISBN 0-8101-1788-6, ISBN 978-0-8101-1788-4
Articles
- "The lingering stench: airing Stalin’s archives" The New Criterion, Volume 27, March, 2009, page 10.
- "Thugland" The New Criterion, Volume 26, February, 2008, page 71.
- "Sideshadows: The determination of free will" The New Criterion, Volume 23, May, 2005, page 17.
- Narrativeness, New Literary History, Vol. 34, No. 1, Inquiries into Ethics and Narratives (Winter, 2003), pp. 59–73
- The Aphorism: Fragments from the Breakdown of Reason, New Literary History, Vol. 34, No. 3, Theorizing Genres II (Summer, 2003), pp. 409–429
- "The art & life of Dostoevsky" The New Criterion, Volume 20, June, 2002, page 83.
- "Isaac Babel's genre of silence" The New Criterion, Volume 20, January, 2002, page 61.
- "How did Dostoevsky know?" The New Criterion, Volume 17, May, 1999, page 21.
- ""Absolute nonsense"--Gogol's tales" The New Criterion, Volume 17 November 1998, page 65.
- Misanthropology, New Literary History, Vol. 27, No. 1, A Symposium on "Living Alone Together" (Winter, 1996), pp. 57–72
- Bakhtin, Genres, and Temporality, New Literary History, Vol. 22, No. 4, Papers from the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change (Autumn, 1991), pp. 1071–1092
- Sideshadowing and Tempics, New Literary History, Vol. 29, No. 4, Critics without Schools? (Autumn, 1998), pp. 599–624
- Contingency and Freedom, Prosaics and Process, New Literary History, Vol. 29, No. 4, Critics without Schools? (Autumn, 1998), pp. 673–686
- Tolstoy's Absolute Language, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Summer, 1981), pp. 667–687
- Dialogue, Monologue, and the Social: A Reply to Ken Hirschkop, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Jun., 1985), pp. 679–686
- Who Speaks for Bakhtin?: A Dialogic Introduction, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Dec., 1983), pp. 225–243
- Strange Synchronies and Surplus Possibilities: Bakhtin on Time, Slavic Review, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 477–493
- Socialist Realism and Literary Theory, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Winter, 1979), pp. 121–133
- The Baxtin Industry, The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Spring, 1986), pp. 81–90
- Dostoevsky's Anti-Semitism and the Critics: A Review Article, The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Autumn, 1983), pp. 302–317
- Prosaics Evolving, The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Spring, 1997), pp. 57–73
- Paradoxical Dostoevsky, The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 471–494
- Imputations and Amputations: Reply to Wall and Thomson, Gary Saul Morson, Caryl Emerson, Diacritics, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Winter, 1993), pp. 93–99
- Bakhtin and the Politics of Criticism, Ken Hirschkop, David Shepherd, Gary Saul Morson, PMLA, Vol. 109, No. 1 (Jan., 1994), pp. 116–118
- Slavists after the Soviet Union, Harsha Ram, Gary Saul Morson, PMLA, Vol. 107, No. 5 (Oct., 1992), pp. 1286–1288
- Review: Literary, Theory, Psychoanalysis, and the Creative Process, Review: Unconscious Structure in The Idiot: A Study in Literature and Psychoanalysis by Elizabeth Dalton, Poetics Today, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Spring, 1982), pp. 157–172
- State of the Field: A Review Article, Review: Dostoevsky and the Novel: The Wages of Biography by Michael Holquist, The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Summer, 1978), pp. 203–207
- Literary Theory, Psychoanalysis, and the Creative Process: A Review Article, Reviewed work(s): Unconscious Structure in "The Idiot": A Study in Literature and Psychoanalysis by Elizabeth Dalton, The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Winter, 1981), pp. 62–75
- Review: Dostoevsky and Gogol: Texts and Criticism by Priscilla Meyer; Stephen Rudy. Slavic Review, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Winter, 1981), pp. 676–677
- Review: Dostoevsky. The Literary Artist by Erik Krag; Sven Larr, The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Summer, 1978), pp. 213–214
See also
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Further reading